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My name is Jack. My family story is about my great great grandfather Andrew/Gala Carey from Kilmurry Co. Limerick.
One night in 1920 Gala was in a public house or card school in Martinstown townland, across from the Bog church, when a British Army/police patrol fired into the house (maybe enforcing a curfew) and Gala was shot. He survived being shot and lasted well into his 90s. My gran tells me now that the bullet lodged near his kidney and was never removed.
The morning after the shooting when my great grandfather, Jack Carey, heard that his father was shot he supposedly said “At least we still have our Mother!”.
